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About Byung Ho Choi
Byung Ho Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics, with a concentration in World Christianity and history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary. His research focuses on the indigenous expressions of Christianity found in Southeast Asia, particularly as found in the Muslim-dominant archipelagic nation of Indonesia. More broadly, his interests include the history of Christianity, issues of conversion and social identity, inter-religious (Christian–Muslim) dialogue, ecumenism, interculturality, anthropology of Christianity, and World Christianity.
Byung Ho Choi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Ecumenics, with a concentration in World Christianity and history of religions at Princeton Theological Seminary.
NBN Episodes hosted by Byung:
April 1, 2026
John Wesley and the Origins of Methodist Missions
It is broadly understood that John Wesley was the founder of the Methodist movement that spread around the world in the eighteenth century. He is know…
March 31, 2026
Christian-Muslim Relations in Post-Reformation Indonesia
The post-Reformation era has witnessed a vastly changing landscape in Indonesian Islam, particularly with the emergence of conservative Muslim voices.…
December 21, 2025
Re-Inventing Islam
From the end of the American Civil War to the start of World War II, the Protestant missionary movement unintentionally tilled the soil in which Ameri…
April 7, 2025
Missionaries, Anthropologists, and Music in the Indonesian Archipelago
Although the history of Indonesian music has received much attention from ethnomusicologists and Western composers alike, almost nothing has been writ…
December 18, 2024
Sheets of Scattered Sand
Justin K.H. Tse captures the voices of Cantonese Protestant Christians from the San Francisco, Vancouver, and Hong Kong metropolitan areas as they ref…
June 3, 2024
Protestant Missionaries in China
With a focus on Robert Morrison, Protestant Missionaries in China: Robert Morrison and Early Sinology (U Notre Dame Press, 2024) evaluates the role of…
November 15, 2023
Cambodian Evangelicalism
The Cambodian Civil War and genocide of the late 1960s and ’70s left the country and its diaspora with long-lasting trauma that continues to reverbera…
October 16, 2023
Women in World Christianity
Gina A. Zurlo's book Women in World Christianity: Building and Sustaining a Global Movement (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023) is the first textbook to focus on …
August 5, 2023
Birthing Revival
The nineteenth century witnessed a flurry of evangelical and missionary activity in Europe and North America. This was an era of renewed piety and int…
June 3, 2023
The Allure of Empire
The Allure of Empire: American Encounters with Asians in the Age of Transpacific Expansion and Exclusion (Oxford UP, 2023) traces how American ideas a…
May 1, 2023
South Asia's Christians
South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims. But the region is also home to substantial Christian communities, some da…
March 5, 2023
A Spirit of Revitalization
Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, Africa has generated unique expressions of Christianity that have, in their rapid development, overtaken…
February 28, 2023
How to Study Global Christianity
Jason Bruner's How to Study Global Christianity: A Short Guide for Students (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022) provides students with an accessible–yet critic…
January 29, 2023
The Politics of Persecution
Persecution of Christians in the Middle East has been a recurring theme since the middle of the nineteenth century. The topic has experienced a resurg…
December 25, 2022
The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya
The Mission of Apolo Kivebulaya: Religious Encounter and Social Change in the Great Lakes c.1865-1935 (James Currey, 2020) is a vivid portrayal of Kiv…
October 14, 2022
Global Christianity
Christianity is now a majority-global South religion, with more believers living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America than in Europe and North America. …
July 5, 2022
Race for Revival
In 1973, Billy Graham, "America's Pastor," held his largest ever "crusade." But he was not, as one might expect, in the American heartland, but in Sou…
June 20, 2022
Telugu Christians
Telugu Christians: A History (Fortress Press, 2022) narrates the history of Telugu Christians, a faith community located in the states of Telangana, A…
April 28, 2022
The Global Mission of the Jim Crow South
João B. Chaves analyzes the first hundred years of Southern Baptist missionary activity in Brazil to reveal how the racialized practices of Southern B…
February 28, 2022
Songs of the Lisu Hills
The story of how the Lisu of southwest China were evangelized one hundred years ago by the China Inland Mission is a familiar one in mission circles. …
February 11, 2022
Indigeneity in African Religions
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Afe Adogame, Indigeneity in African Religions: Oza Worldviews, Cosmologies and …
December 10, 2021
The Scots Afrikaners
Drawing primarily on Dutch and Afrikaans archival sources including the Dutch Reformed Church Archive and private collections, Retief Muller's The Sco…
December 8, 2021
Kwame Bediako
Kwame Bediako was one of the great African theologians of his generation. Challenging the assumption that Christianity is a Western religion, he prese…
November 15, 2021
Ecumenism and Independency in World Christianity
‘Ecumenism’ and ‘independency’ suggest two distinct impulses in the history of Christianity: the desire for unity, co-operation, connectivity, and sha…